Moves to reserve small businesses for locals, Court rescinds orders preventing Ok Tedi from dumping waste and BSP records 11% profit increase. Your digest of the week’s business news.
ExxonMobil PNG
As Papua New Guinea’s largest resources project edges closer to completion, Business Advantage PNG speaks exclusively with Peter Graham, the man who has lead the PNG LNG gas project since Day One. In this first of a two-part series, the Managing Director of ExxonMobil PNG provides an update on the project’s progress.
The private involvement in healthcare has expanded substantially in Papua New Guinea as foreign investment, particular into the country’s mining and petroleum sectors, has grown. We present a brief overview of the sector.
The international energy services company, Wood Group PSN, has won a contract with Esso Highlands to provide construction and maintenance to services to the Hides gas plant in Papua New Guinea’s Highlands and the new PNG LNG plant near Port Moresby.
Oil Search has reported that while it has discovered only ‘modest’ quantities of natural gas during a new exploration campaign in the Gulf of Papua, it will continue drilling in the area.
Time magazine looks at PNG’s sorcery killings, the Wall street looks at ExxonMobil’s ‘PNG gas grab’, submarine cables link Tonga and Vanuatu to Fiji and new PNG investment in Samoa.
Papua New Guinea’s much-anticipated second gas project could turn out to be an extension of its first, as ExxonMobil commences exclusive negotiations with InterOil and Pacific LNG.
Leighton Holdings has appointed Robert Humphris to the role of Chairman, following the surprise resignation of Stephen Johns. Humphris is the former managing director of Peabody Resources. Paula Dwyer becomes Vice-Chairman.
With gas production from the US$19 billion PNG LNG project due to start next year, Peter Graham, Managing Director of Esso Highlands Limited, talks exclusively to Business Advantage PNG about the long-term impact of the project on the economy.
Papua New Guinea will be heavily reliant on its liquefied natural gas exports for many years to come. Rod Myer considers how PNG’s aspirations may be affected by global trends.